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Re: "memory full" during redisplay
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: "memory full" during redisplay |
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Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:42:54 +0200 |
> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:27:16 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
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> On 12/09/2014 10:09 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > However, signaling an error in the middle of redisplay is not a good
> > idea, because Emacs will immediately re-enter redisplay, again signal
> > an error, etc.
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> Does the code call 'memory_full', or does it signal an error directly?
The former. The call to memory is in xmalloc and xrealloc, so it
cannot be avoided.
> If the former, memory_full should free enough spare memory so that the
> redisplay should work and if that's not happening I'd be curious to know
> why.
Because that memory reserve is not enough in the use cases I'm talking
about. The code needs more than just that reserve.